13. Style Sheets For Handhelds
A last minute decision to go to the movies, a need to settle a bet about the official language of Andorra, the phone number of the company to which you’ll arrive fifteen minutes late for your meeting, a map to the company because the reason you’re late is you can’t find the place. The Mobile Web is upon us. We want information when we need it, not when we get home to our computers.
The Mobile Web’s beginnings were marked by its limitations: a tiny screen, little memory, and slow transfer rates. WAP, the Wireless Application Protocol was developed to squeak out as much speed as possible. WML, or Wireless Markup Language, was designed to streamline sites so that they wouldn’t tax those little browsers.
The Mobile ...
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